How can we avoid sinking into another Great Depression? Unbound author Heather Boushey suggests we must mobilize our growing army of furloughed workers on behalf public health. But how do we do that? She says to look to how #FrancesPerkins created the Works Progress Administration to help us through the last one… A modern-day Works Progress Administration could
Perkins’ lost legacy is finding new life, thanks to the social and economic similarities to post-Great Depression America that may emerge as the world continues to cope with COVID. “Frances Perkins’ handiwork is the system we’re using right now to relieve the distress of hundreds of millions of people,” Downey says. “The bottom line is
The Secretary of Labor “quite blew our poor Undersecretary off his end of the phone.”
Frances Perkins and Historical Memory By Rebecca Brenner Graham / Made by History October 21,
Executive Director Giovanna Gray Lockhart was featured in @ The Hill over Labor Day weekend
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